In 2015, Nagoya’s Chubu Centrair International Airport received the first 787 Dreamliner test plane as a gift from Boeing. The airport built the newly opened, multistory “Flight of Dreams” aviation attraction and commercial complex around it.
At first, it seems odd that Boeing’s first 787 Dreamliner test plane is the main attraction inside an exhibition center that opened this month at the airport in Nagoya, Japan. It may seem even odder that all the retail and dining venues in the hall have a theme… from Seattle.
But it makes sense when you consider that Nagoya-area aerospace manufacturers build 35 percent of the parts for each 787 aircraft — including wings and fuselage sections that are ferried from the Nagoya airport to Boeing assembly plants in Everett, Washington, north of Seattle, and North Charleston, South Carolina. The oversized 747 cargo planes carrying them are dubbed “Dreamlifters.”
In 2015, Nagoya’s Chubu Centrair International Airport received the first 787 Dreamliner test plane (known as the ZA001) as a gift from Boeing.
